The remastering into HD just brings out colors more, especially in animation, and in this case revealing Hot Rod to have that more noticeable magenta look. But that color was always being used, and even in old untouched footage for many scenes you can see it's that color, granted it is a shade of red and not actually pink like some claim but he was definitely never intended to be a true red like Optimus is.

And no that didn't match his original G1 toy, either, but remember that in this case, Floro Dery designed the movie characters before the toys, so it could be argued that the designers at Takara got it wrong when they designed the prototype and Hasbro didn't care enough to fix it for the final release.

 

The comics are now available on the website here

 

I just pre-ordered one book!  

I usually buy only the trades in physical form and the rest digitally. But THIS one will be framed to the wall. Should I use something else to protect the book if I might want to sell it in the future or is the frame enough protection?